I tried this once on a side project with a small engineering team, but FreeCAD was my alternative to AutoDesk. If we had been a naval vessel they would have mutinied and hung me from a yardarm. They were a clever bunch of hardworking sods and they tried, but sometimes open source isn't up to the task.
Still I think you're right. I suspect that creative suites must be much further along than some engineering sorts of software. Not sure why.
I would love to hear about your OpenSCAD experience and what kind of uses cases you think its appropriate for. I've no experience with parametric modeling and the I don't understand the workflow.
Openscad works well if you prefer to model in code. There's no visual interface to tweak at all, just lines of code to get the output you want. It's much easier for parametric modelling since you can simply just define values and insert them into your code and just change those. It also allows for coding different modules so you can call on them in later code. You can also call on different libraries of code people have already written to generate your models. I used the boardgame insert library extensively
I switched to freecad cause I had a hard time modelling non basic shapes ( anything that's not round or hex, or square etc) in openscad. You can do it but the coding was a bit tough for me.
I tried this once on a side project with a small engineering team, but FreeCAD was my alternative to AutoDesk. If we had been a naval vessel they would have mutinied and hung me from a yardarm. They were a clever bunch of hardworking sods and they tried, but sometimes open source isn't up to the task.
Still I think you're right. I suspect that creative suites must be much further along than some engineering sorts of software. Not sure why.
I use freecad as well. Migrated from openscad
I would love to hear about your OpenSCAD experience and what kind of uses cases you think its appropriate for. I've no experience with parametric modeling and the I don't understand the workflow.
Openscad works well if you prefer to model in code. There's no visual interface to tweak at all, just lines of code to get the output you want. It's much easier for parametric modelling since you can simply just define values and insert them into your code and just change those. It also allows for coding different modules so you can call on them in later code. You can also call on different libraries of code people have already written to generate your models. I used the boardgame insert library extensively
I switched to freecad cause I had a hard time modelling non basic shapes ( anything that's not round or hex, or square etc) in openscad. You can do it but the coding was a bit tough for me.